School of Humanities and Sciences
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Peter Vitousek
Clifford G. Morrison Professor of Population and Resource Studies and Professor of Earth System Science, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsVitousek's research interests include: evaluating the global cycles of nitrogen and phosphorus, and how they are altered by human activity; understanding how the interaction of land and culture contributed to the sustainability of Hawaiian (and other Pacific) agriculture and society before European contact; and working to make fertilizer applications more efficient and less environmentally damaging (especially in rapidly growing economies)
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Barbara L. Voss
Professor of Anthropology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am a historical archaeologist who studies the dynamics and outcomes of transnational cultural encounters: How did diverse groups of people, who previously had little knowledge of each other, navigate the challenges and opportunities of abrupt and sustained interactions caused by colonialism, conflict, and migration? I approach this question through fine-grained, site-specific investigations coupled with broad-scale comparative and collaborative research programs.
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Anthony Wagner
Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCognitive neuroscience of memory and cognitive/executive control in young and older adults. Research interests include encoding and retrieval mechanisms; interactions between declarative, nondeclarative, and working memory; forms of cognitive control; neurocognitive aging; functional organization of prefrontal cortex, parietal cortex, and the medial temporal lobe; assessed by functional MRI, scalp and intracranial EEG, and transcranial magnetic stimulation.
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Virginia Walbot
Professor of Biology, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsOur current focus is on maize anther development to understand how cell fate is specified. We discovered that hypoxia triggers specification of the archesporial (pre-meiotic) cells, and that these cells secrete a small protein MAC1 that patterns the adjacent soma to differentiate as endothecial and secondary parietal cell types. We also discovered a novel class of small RNA: 21-nt and 24-nt phasiRNAs that are exceptionally abundant in anthers and exhibit strict spatiotemporal dynamics.
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Andrew G. Walder
Denise O'Leary & Kent Thiry Professor of the Humanities and Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMarket reforms in China; and political movements in China during the Cultural Revolution.
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Camille Walker
Program Associate, Science, Technology and Society
Current Role at StanfordProgram Associate, Science, Technology, and Society
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John J. Walker
Technology Administrator, JSK Journalism Fellowships
BioJohn J. Walker is technical administrator for the JSK Journalism Fellowships. His forward thinking nature makes JSK one of the most technologically adaptable programs on campus.
He manages all the software and digital infrastructure that keeps the fellowship running and accessible to applicants and collaborators from around the world and within the Stanford community. This includes the fellowship application platform, the JSK website and the various tools the program uses to communicate and collaborate.
John started working at Stanford in 1999. Previously he was web administrator for the Department of Communication and the technical director of the Political Communication Lab. There he created experimental manipulations for social science research, like testing people’s responses to political ads. Before Stanford, he worked at Sun Microsystems as a software developer.
John has a master’s degree in communication from Stanford, as well as master’s and bachelor’s degrees in computer science from the University of California at Riverside.
